BOHICA: The Senate passed a $1.7 trillion spending package on Thursday, with at least 18 Republicans joining Democrats to push the massive omnibus over the line. […] The bill also contains $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers,” $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island “to indoctrinate teachers with ‘antiracism virtual labs,’” and $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum, according to The Heritage Foundation.
PERSON, YES PERSON: That loud, mysterious thumping sound reported in Arlington National Cemetary is R. Lee Ermey and every other old Marine spinning in their graves as the USMC considers dropping “sir” and “ma’am” for drill instructors.
UK TITULAR LEADER DEMANDS FANCY CEREMONY: King Charles rejects frugal coronation, demands subjects pay for fancy, expensive coronation just like mum got. Meanwhile, ordinary brits suffer from inflation, face cold winter.
ASPIRATIONAL THINKING: The Daily Beast predicts Putin’s days are numbered.
CRY MORE, PUSSY: Whiny journo whines whinily about suspension from Twitter of people who happen to be journalists. They even made up a name for it, the Thursday Night Massacre (sorry, nobody was actually killed), and treat it like it was Kristallnacht or something.
MARS SAMPLE-RETURN MISSION CHANGE OF PLANS: The original plan was to land a European Space Agency rover to retrieve the sample tubes that Mars rover Perseverance has collected. The Euroweenies were behind schedule on design so NASA decided to go with a helicopter to transport the sample tubes back to the rocket which will return them to Earth.
The comments, dear friends, are all yours.
Snowmageddon is upon us!
Fear!
Cold!
Wind!
Fear maybe, it’s still 30, and no wind here. But the snow is coming down at a fast clip.
28* and threatening, here. But supposedly rain the next couple days, so no white Xmas.
Rain thru tomorrow morning, 41 when the sun comes up, then 21 at 1pm and single digits over night. Still, better than our place down in VA where it is supposed to zero out for the low.
Have fun. We’re still digging out up here. Even had to have the roofs cleared, the amount of snow we had piled up was making me a tad uncomfortable.
Should be 70 Americanheit here tomorrow. I think we got a light frost a week or so ago.
Giant chunky snowflake clusters falling. a bit above freezing.
It’s like winter in Michigan or something!!
Is that photoshop?
The fact that it’s at least as likely not to be shopped is a testament to Joe bringing back the class to the WH.
I was wondering too. The length of Uncle Joe’s are and bend in his elbow tells me it is photoshopped.
I could tell from the pixels, and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
Check the alt-text.
So, it’s the Russian Collusion of ass grabs.
What a git. Glad I’m not a Brit.
That guy’s been waiting for this his whole life. Of course he’s going all out.
He’ll have to wear extra poofy pants to hide his turgid royal member.
I would too, it’s amazing he didn’t die before his mom.
I wouldn’t. Sounds tedious enough without drawing it out with extra frippery.
Dude, his whole job is frippery.
He needs a Les Paul and bunch of modified tape machines.
But I thought the MtFs wanted to be called ma’am?
Lol. I was hoping it would be that video.
Must’ve been that time of the month.
I’m tired of shying away from expressing controversial opinions.
USMC shouldn’t have “ma’ams” in it.
It’s called the tip of the spear, not the precipice of the chasm.
Everything about this comment is so good you should go pro.
“Sgt. Daniel Contreias, a drill instructor from Marine Corps Recruit Depot,”
Sarge in the picture looks like a ma’am. Some how had to go back 10 years to find some badass Drill Sgt and then it was a woman.
I know there are some tough ready-to-fight military people but every time I see a woman I wonder if “The Spirit of the Bayonet is to Kill” is still being used. I want a lean mean fighting machine to defend me, not some confusion over pronouns.
There is a place for the “Fairer Sex” in the military but I’m not sure it’s in the combat or direct support units.
There’s a lot of IDF members I’d go to close quarters combat with, literally and euphemistically.
Boy, howdy!
It’s great having them in Medical. They’re generally gentler and more considerate of patients, and in our experience, you could see banged-up guys coming off an ambulance just breathe a sigh of relief when they looked up and saw a young woman. They pretty much knew they were out of the shit then.
Of course, that’s how it worked then. I guess they are putting young women in the shit now.
Does that mean I can talk about my back step?
Someone (I know who but it’s not relevant to the story) gave me a $25 Home Depot gift card for Christmas, so I figured it would be worth it to try covering the damage to the concrete. It’s also now snowing, so the weather might hide the step from the neighbors. As such, I was looking for a 1×10, but didn’t find any, but did find a pressure treated 2×10 ($15). On my way to the store, I was wondering if the wind might pick up the board, and thought about getting stuff to weigh it down, but getting it off the rack, I immediately concluded if the wind could carry that board off, I had bigger problems.
So, at least for the moment, the damage is covered. Hopefully it will stay that way until I get it repaired.
Good show, UCS. Leave a little snow on the ends to hold it down.
Dare we say, the walls are closing in?
I predict every human on the planet’s days are numbered. Not much of a prediction.
Beat me to it.
If you can’t rely on the expertise of The Daily Beast, who can you rely on???????
I was suspended from Twitter for suggesting that he had cancer and would not survive it.
Weird. Have you tried petitioning Elon for a return?
I was denied mine. It seems only big famous people are getting let back on.
Imagine if Bro was on there. Banned in moments?
That would happen to me as well.
Denied.
“demands subjects pay for fancy, expensive coronation just like mum got”
Well, it’s pretty much show business.
I’m no monarchist but I give the late Queen credit. She conducted herself with dignity. That was a show mostly worth watching. Her son on the other hand….
Yes, Elizabeth was dignified. She always seemed to act as if the best interests of the UK were in her purview and was out to further them. Once Charles gets his gaudy coronation, and starts lecturing the few Brits who still care for freedom about climate change, and the need for them to sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice so they can make pathetic, pointless “contributions” to minimizing of CO2, they might be singing a different song.
It’s often forgotten that the British monarch is the head of the military. Elizabeth had a hard rule about not attacking civilian infrastructure.
Is it a coincidence that Nordstream was blown up (apparently by the Brits) right after she passed?
Huh. I didn’t know it was the Brits. I figured CIA, not MI6.
But yeah, I’m sure they’re as sleazy as our guys, and would happily take advantage of a power vacuum.
I heard Douglas Macgregor speculate that Brits were involved. I think he hears rumors that most of us don’t, given his connections, but he hadn’t seen evidence as I recall. Weren’t US Navy vessels seen loitering in the area at the time too?
This is all so Camilla can call herself Queen Consort.
“the Thursday Night Massacre (sorry, nobody was actually killed)”
I think they’re riffing off the Saturday night massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Yeah, that was my thinking, too.
That makes it even more retarded since Musk didn’t impress upon a succession of underlings to ban the accounts, only to have them resign rather than follow his orders.
They are and it’s weak.
TPTB: At the urging of Tundra and Ozy, I have submitted my first bit of fiction for the site. It is holiday themed, and I’m not sure if it’s too late, but it’s there.
👍
YAYASSSSSSS!
Peer pressure works!
Thanks, Kev! I can’t wait!
Set for Christmas Day, 1100.
A worth piece, it is!
Wow!
For being power-mad editorial dictators, they’re a pretty accomodating lot.
Heck yeah. Well done!
“and treat it like it was Kristallnacht or something”
That was an actual tweet. Anyway, it was just a temporary suspension.
Anyone having problems with Amazon deliveries? Mrs. TOK and I both have orders that we put in a week ago, and are “delayed”, which apparently means “lost”. I just got notification they switched delivery service and it will be here next Thursday.
Yes. Amazon’s in house deliveries are the only ones that give me trouble.
FedEx sends me “HOLY SHIT WE WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS DO NOT EXPECT YOUR PACKAGES TO BE DELIVERED ON TIME, MAYBE EVER” notifications every time it drizzles, so it’s probably winter-storm related.
Now it is, but originally it should have all been here a few days ago.
FedEx Freight dock my daughter works at is closed.
There’s also been staffing issues at most of the delivery services this year for some reason.
Since you mention that.
That’s right, ignore our labor force participation rate. Just import in some willing labor. Sort of like colonialism without having to live in the wogs.
Well, they just sent me a second broken toilet seat to replace the broken toilet seat they delivered a few days ago.
Clearly, you’re not reading product descriptions close enough.
*checks again*
“Comes with broken left latch.”
You’re right!
🙂
You can’t swap out parts between them to get one working seat? 🙂
See that’s the kind of outside-of-the-box thinking we keep you around for.
Worth a look.
Tomorrow.
Lol. They did that with a succession of Corelle plates I ordered a few years ago. I ordered 6 giant dinner plates. First package arrived with 4 broken. Shattered to bits. I asked if they could replace the broken ones for me. They sent me a full 6-plate replacement. Second package arrived with 3 broken. They sent me another full replacement. Third package arrived with 1 broken. By this point I have 4 more plates than I actually ordered, but I figured maybe I could get them to send me just a single plate as a bonus to replace the broken one. Instead they sent another full replacement. 2 broken this time, but since I now had 14 plates when I ordered 6, I figured that was enough. You’d think it would be cheaper at some point to figure out some method of packaging very thin glass plates other than throwing them loosely into a cardboard box with no cushioning between them, but I’m not a billionaire logistics expert.
LOL
The second toilet seat, unlike the first one, even came with a hard plastic tie around it that’s apparently meant to prevent the latches that are sticking out like a sore thumb from hitting the inside of the box but alas.
The toilet seat I want to replace has metal latches. I guess metal is out these days.
Yeah, I think what happens is that Amazon gets merch that’s been packaged for brick and mortar retail outlets, and then goes “Hey, just throw it in a box, what’s the worst that could happen?” The trip from the back of the store to the cash register at Home Depot tends to be a little smoother than 3 days getting thrown around various warehouses and delivery vehicles. Makes me wonder how the stuff arrives at the Amazon intact in the first place though. I don’t think they do any bulk breaking themselves, so the manufacturer must send them out that way.
Yeah, I’m guessing the trip from China to an Amazon warehouse isn’t any more carefully conducted than the trip to my house.
Well done.
I can’t even remember how many times I had to have replacement mirrors sent out when I was having this house built.
They’re mirrors, fuckos! Pack them accordingly!
You have only yourself to blame for that ugly crack you see every time you use that toilet seat.
Taylor Lorenz hardest hit.
Also. the asshole who wrote the linked article is from The Intercept, the place that kicked out founder Glenn Greenwald because he wasn’t crunchy enough for their liking. Why the rest of them decided that a media universe that contains NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Buzzfeed, Vox, Slate…etc… didn’t have enough progressive voices will forever remain a mystery.
Every voice must be progressive or they’ve failed.
Greenwald was far enough left for them, he just wasn’t pro-regime enough for them.
They even made up a name for it, the Thursday Night Massacre (sorry, nobody was actually killed), and treat it like it was Kristallnacht or something.
They’re treating it like it’s Watergate, something they’ve been doing with “scandals” for 50 years.
At first they actually had sympathy from people on the right, but then they opened their yaps and everyone was like, “Oh right, never mind.”
Someone needs to reintroduce “Dome” for political scandals (as in Teapot Dome) to replace “gate”. Seriously sick of that.
DOMEGATE!
I’d be okay with that…
Two men entered. Two men left.
L’affair de… needs to come back.
The tubes will not be dropped in a single place but instead spread out over dozens of meters.
Perseverance spreading its seed?
PurityPerseverance of Essence.-7 degrees out. And quite windy. I need to go start he snowblower for the first time this season. That’s always exciting.
Iowa Strong
I need a hair dryer to warm up the starter on the snowblower. My Stihl chainsaw seems to have outlived it’s best used by day. The local repair guy got it to run, says it may not last long.. It doesn’t get much use by me anymore, though I do see trees down in the yard.
Trees down due to wind or snow loading?
Snow loading. Just got the road opened past my driveway after a week. There are no people living past me so it wasn’t any sort of emergency.
We had about a foot of heavy wet snow, trees are beautiful still, a winter wonderland. The wind was supposed to be serious today but it headed south. Jimbo and KInnath and others are getting their turn.
Not Jimbo.
That primadonna is basking in the sun!
Trainwreck resigns
Disgraced New Hampshire Democrat Stacie Laughton (D-Nashua) has resigned from the House of Representatives, adding to the GOP’s narrow margin of control.
The Office of the House Clerk published the notice of Laughton’s resignation on Thursday.
Laughton, who has been in and out of legal trouble since at least 2008, is currently being held without bail in the Valley Street Jail in Manchester. The lawmaker was put there by 9th District Court Judge Kimberly Chabot, who found clear and convincing evidence that the incumbent state representative is currently a danger to the alleged victim and the community at large.
No word yet on if there will be a special election to replace him.
In a state with a population about the same as a mid-tier metropolitan statistical area, they elected one of the probably, what, 12 trannies? I wonder if eventually the novelty wears off. Perhaps once we have an undocumented migrant Latinx differently abled non-binary trans-lesbian genderfuck BIPOC elected president.
Not once, multiple times.
He was elected in 2012, but had to resign because of felony credit card fraud. You’re ineligible to serve in the NH legislature if you’ve been convicted of a felony and not finished your sentence.
He tried to run in the 2013 special election to fill that seat, but was disqualified because he still wasn’t finished his sentence (I think out on parole or on probation at that point? Can’t remember and can’t find details).
He ran again in 2022 and won.
Sorry… elected in 2020 and 2022.
one more try: in 2020, he was eligible to run as he had completed the earlier credit card fraud sentence. So he ran in 2020, was elected, served, ran for reelection in 2022, and won. Now resigning a second time.
Lol, that’s a hell of a story. From the dead thread: Hey Hollywood, if you want to make a woke movie that doesn’t suck ass, just turn this into a screenplay.
See The Oppression in the System
One look at the photo and the stalking charge was not a surprise.
A double dose of Thicc Thursday!
https://archive.ph/w0N7g
https://archive.ph/sP94u
“PICTURED: Wife ‘openly gay’ US congressman-elect George Santos DIDN’T want you to know about – as it’s revealed there is no record of marriage to his ‘husband’ and he made up Jewish heritage after lying about finance career and education”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11566223/George-Santos-openly-gay-Republican-congressman-elect-married-woman-2019.html
And?
What are his policies?
We don’t talk policy anymore. It’s all personalities and drama, like pro wrestling.
There is only one policy and it is what the agencies want.
Does he know Corn-Pop?
LOL never let it be said that the NYT isn’t diligent when there’s a hit-piece to be crafted.
I wonder how many staff have been assigned to digging up dirt on all the other flipped seats.
This guy appears to be a complete fraud. It looks like Team Blue didn’t do any oppo research during the campaign.
Meh, so he fits in with everyone else in congress.
Was it because the district was deeply blue and the Dems didn’t think they would need to put any effort? I can imagine this happening in MA.
From the headline I thought he was still married to her, putting his gayness into question, but he divorced her a few years ago. I don’t think that’s on the same level as lying about his career, education and Jewish heritage. It’s not that unusual for straight-married guys to divorce their wives and come out of the closet as gay – one of my childhood friends’ dad did that way back in the bad old ’90s.
It’s common among men who grew up in times and places where being gay just wasn’t a practical option. And we can also legitimately question whether those men are truly gay, or just some flavor of bisexual.
Q: Is a gay man who can have sex with a woman actually bisexual, or just a gay man who can have sex with a woman?
This can never be posted enough.
https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529
My personal take on this is two-fold:
1) Men are pigs and will f**k anything.
2) Male bisexuality is a continuum from men who like women just barely enough to be able to perform and impregnate them to men who really like women but also have a taste for their fellow men. That continuum is book-ended by the “gold star homos” who have never had sex with a woman, and the truly straight guys who have never even experimented with another guy and are repulsed by the idea.
Tonio, remind me about this convo tomorrow night.
I think to pull that off you have to be at least a little bisexual, and then maybe down the line they find that they’re more strongly inclined to one or the other. As a straight guy, I just couldn’t make gay sex work, even under immense social pressure. I assume it’s the same the other way as well.
In my friend’s dad’s case, this was norcal in the mid 80s, but he apparently got bullied in school and his parents weren’t so much in for the gay thing, so as a high school senior, wanting to quash any suspicions, he decides to date one of the girls in the junior class, accidentally knocks her up, decides “well, I guess this is my life now” and starts a family. I didn’t find out until years later, but I guess they were into swinging, and he was doing bi stuff in that scene while they were married. My friend stumbled across some of their tapes, magazines, and gear when he was like 8 or 9 years old, back before every gradeschooler was watching tranny orgies on the internet, so that screwed him up pretty severely for a while.
Men are just slutty in general; which is why gold star lesbians are a thing and (to my knowledge) gold star gays are not.
They most certainly are.
Ah, I stand corrected.
Maybe I don’t understand the “gold star” term but there’s nothing unusual at all about younger gay guys never trying to sleep with a woman.
Wouldn’t his gay marriage have a record, regardless whether he’s actually gay?
Done with work until the new year time to break out the whiskey and gin! Giving this a try tonight
https://fourrosesbourbon.com/bourbon/single-barrel/
I’m jealous.
You’re in for a treat, the Four Roses Single Barrel is fantastic. A little pricey for me, so I’ve only had it a few times for special occasions, but it actually punches above its weight at its price point.
Agreed. Their small batch is pretty good too and more reasonably priced. A little on the sweet side.
I’ve heard that, but I’ve yet to buy any of the small batch. I can’t get it locally and I never to think to pick any up when I’m in Vegas. I had a complimentary Costco membership last year, so I was buying handles of Woodford Reserve for only $55. The 750ml is like $40. Alas, my free membership expired and I’m down to the last one in my stash.
The Senate passed a $1.7 trillion spending package on Thursday
We argue about whether it is better for the country to collapse quickly or slowly. It appears the choice has been taken out of our hands.
This is really fucked.
I’ve been saying this since the bailouts in 2008. I’m not sure what it will take at this point.
I think it’s the addition shit for Ukraine. No way we can keep dumping arms into the country without things going seriously sideways.
This was interesting. They probably slapped Joe around a little bit afterwards.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/biden-claims-arming-ukraine-with-advanced-gear-could-break-apart-nato/
“They’re not looking to go to war with Russia — they’re not looking for a third World War,” he said.
But apparently we are.
According to Sacks, continental Europe (read France and Germany) is not fully on board with the Ukraine insanity, but they’re too cowed by us to break ranks.
I doubt that’s true for the Greens however.
In that the Greens are onboard with it. Primarily because they’re insane.
This.
We’ve spent more in aid to Ukraine in the last 9 months than Russia’s entire annual military budget. It’s no wonder NATO membership is so attractive.
How did you go bankrupt?
Slowly at first, and then suddenly all at once.
Related: https://babylonbee.com/news/republicans-trick-people-into-reading-spending-bill-by-naming-it-harry-potter-and-the-17-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill
Come on… most of them would just wait for the movie, and then say they read the book right when it came out.
From the right column of Chafed’s recommendation.
https://babylonbee.com/news/harmful-phrases-you-should-stop-using—and-what-to-replace-them-with
So, at least for the moment, the damage is covered. Hopefully it will stay that way until I get it repaired.
When you catch a break from the weather maybe you can hit a few spots with construction adhesive.
I don’t know how it sets up at cold temps, but that stuff worked wonders indoors on a plastic trim strip which covers the edge of the vinyl plank flooring. Stands up to daily home foot traffic.
I used it when I framed the walls on my daughter’s room in the basement. Wall had to be attached to the floor by code. I didn’t have enough strength to sledge in nails. I wasn’t going to go get a concrete driver for a few feet of wall. Friend suggested Liquid Nails, so … that’s what I did. Stacked a few cincer blocks on it, let it set up, and Bob was my uncle.
I can’t speak for Liquid Nails, but I’ve used PL Premium extensively, and even the lowest strength formula will probably still be bonding long after the house is rubble.
It will be fine.
The Senate passed a $1.7 trillion spending package on Thursday
That’s just to tide us over ’til the fiscal conservatives take control next month, right?
Right?
The fiscal conservatives would have only spent $1.65 trillion.
Right. That’s what makes them conservative. They saved us $50 billion.
From the dedthred – For those who don’t know, Morena Baccarin appeared in the pilot to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Why they haven’t had her on since is a mystery, since she was apparently a friend of theirs
The Ori got to her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfkNnBTUrY Helps if you include the link, I guess.
I never saw the unaired pilot. I should download it some time. They replicated that scene almost shot for shot in the official first season.
Cuck or not? You decide!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20834635/im-devasted-that-my-hubby-pimps-me-out-pay-mortgage/
If he gets all the money then it’s pimping. If he doesn’t get all of the money then he’s a cuck.
Your husband may simply be putting a brave face on the situation, while feeling bad that you are resorting to escort work.
He seems pretty pumped about it.
“They’re not looking to go to war with Russia — they’re not looking for a third World War,” he said.
Those PUSSiES.
Good thread here:
“Since we’ve put it back into the news, I want to go through the Groomer Clown Story Hour issue by doing a thread on an academic paper they wrote about it themselves. (Will unfold as a reread the paper)”
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1605338013340352512
I wouldn’t know what else to call these people other than groomers. No wonder they object so strenuously to the term.
Saboteurs
They intend to create strife. The kids are either just a bonus to satisfy their personal perversions or a tool to be exploited in their quest to destroy Western civilization. Either way, they’re incredibly destructive and they get off on it.
I’ll throw this in the ring again.
The leadership of this and related phenomena are outspoken Marxists intent on destroying “the family”.
They got clueless libs to go along by hitching their wagon to, and taking over, the existing gay rights infrastructure.
Hey, it worked for BLM and civil rights.
In the process they’re galvanizing a moral reactionary wave that’s going to be unpleasant at best.
Maybe they think they’ll benefit from a Queer Floyd moment, but I’m betting that if it coincides with an economic implosion it could get very bloody, very quickly. Tribes get smaller in hard times and tribal affiliations get much, much stronger.
Yeah if there’s anything on Earth that’ll rouse the normies out of hibernation, it’s messing with the kids; it got Youngkin elected in a state that Biden won by double digits only 12 months earlier. When I say he who controls the MILFs controls the world, I say it only half-jokingly. And while I realize many of the ones driving this nonsense are Lefty suburban Karen-moms, I think they comprise a very small minority compared to the angry and vengeful mama bears.
Unfortunately, by the time they rouse out of hibernation, it’s too late. Because they also supported people who voted for 1.7 trillion omnibus bill, wars in Ukraine and else where, covid lockdowns and mandates. Somewhere along the line, the water got too hot while you were busy helping to stoke the fire for you to recover even if you have a mind to.
Rhywun, I’m going to read your link. City Journal is always good. But I just want to point out that my uber-lefty family member keeps posting “you morons, it’s a ‘family friendly’ drag show for kids”.
No, the morons are the ones who think a drag show can be kid-friendly in a good way.
those whose eroticism transgresses generational boundaries
URGE TO KILL RISING
That’s basically a suicide note.
News you can use.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/im-physiotherapist-people-pooing-wrong-28793272
The pelvic floor expert, from Vienna, Australia, warned people that they may be making their bowel movements more difficult for themselves and provided instructions to help tackle the problem.
There is no Vienna, Australia.
I was looking to try to find some small town that proves you wrong.
Nothing has turned up.
It’s a British tabloid, points for effort.
Isn’t this why Squatty Potty was invented.
Yeah, I’ve been hearing the “squat” thing for a couple decades now.
Yes. The models for squatty potty are more attractive too.
*German porn producers’ ears perk up*
I hope they don’t make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who is accused of misappropriating billions of dollars deposited in the crypto currency exchange, walked out of federal courthouse in New York on Thursday after posting $250 million personal recognizance bond.
Bankman-Fried got into a black SUV and was driven away at the start of a cross-country trip that’ll eventually end at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California, where he’ll be kept under house arrest, under terms set by a federal judge.
“He said he’d be right back.”
And where did the money for that come from?
That was my first thought.
#metoo and I thought he was more or less broke now.
I have no background whatsoever in financial crimes, but I’d think someone accused of defrauding investors out of a zillion dollars would have his assets frozen or something.
Mrs. Q often sleeps in a bra but strong pecs, not smoking, no weight yo-yoing and genetics are probably the most effective sag preventers.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/proud-cougar-uses-simple-hack-28778728
It’s no secret around here that I have an aesthetic preference for chesticles on the smaller side anyway, but they also hold up to time and gravity better, so better long-term investment.
The links. I like them.
‘The bill also contains…’
$47 billion to protect the Ukrainian border, zero additional to protect ours.
I’m guessing the palacial new FBI headquarters for funded too .
I hope they put it in the worst of the three options .. Largo since they weren’t brave enough to go for Anacostia.
wut
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/we-love-spending-christmas-nude-28794816
Dude has pierced nipples and they’re both wearing an Apple watch and they call themselves “naturist.” Your lifestyle hasn’t got shit to do with nature, kids. Stop trying to dignify your voyeurism with pretentious euphemisms. You’re a nudist.
As the Good Lord made them.
Gross.
t’s always the people you least want to see in the nude…
Oh yeah, suck it; suck that warboner. Don’t forget to cup the balls. Oh, oh, UHHHHHHHNG! Yeah, swallow every drop you dirty little slut.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/21/opinions/volodymyr-zelensky-address-congress-putin-ghitis
Between the abomnibus bill and Zelenskyy’s embarrassing display the welfare-warfare uniparty is alive and well. And CNN is always up to the task of servicing it however it likes.
“Inflation is nothing”, suck it up peasant.
I had to tap out after the first paragraph.
JFC. I think I’ll just whistle a tune as I watch us sink into another fucking war.
Pursuant to the last thread.
I never thought this music video would be relevant again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1HC8pHZw0
Of the two songs I know by them, I like this one better. 👍
NASA decided to go with a helicopter to transport the sample tubes back to the rocket which will return them to Earth
Its not my flying car or Mr. Fusion, but this is more like the 21st century I was hoping for.
It’s bizarre how one guy can be fundamentally right–early on and vocal about it–on one issue and such an idiot on pretty much everything else.
He will also vote for Biden if Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024.
Once a NYT staffer, always a NYT staffer?
Go fuck yourself.
I’d totally be down for giving eleventy gazillion dollars to crooked politicians in Tajikistan to wage a pointless, bloody war, but not Ukraine. I just hate Ukraine so much, I don’t want to use them as a proxy to take down an enemy of the global empire.
Not really. Being right/smart about one thing doesn’t make someone right/smart about anything else. He’s as good an example of that as you can get. He’s a moron for the Drug War too.
Dude has a mask under his chin in his pic. Fuck him.
I’ve always assumed the assignment of “red states” and “blue states” in 2000 was to distance the Donks for Communism.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-new-reds/
Yeah, I’m sure it was absolutely deliberate.
They did flip the colors, but I am not sure if the reason postulated was the reason why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIkd8CvIfS0
In 1972 the colors were reversed from what they are now. (First map shown around 10:31.)
Even when Reagan won he was winning ‘blue’ states.
Browbeaten into conforming
The US Postal Service is finally going electric. The USPS announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire at least 66,000 electric delivery vehicles between now and 2028, and all purchases after 2026 will be EVs. In total, the agency will invest nearly $10 billion to electrify its fleet.
It’s been a long road to get here, folks. Constant criticism, a strongly-worded letter from the Environmental Protection Agency, a presidential plea, and a lawsuit from 16 states is all it took for the agency to commit to quit purchasing new gas-powered delivery vehicles.
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As of 2020, transportation was the single biggest driver of climate change in the US, accounting for 27% of greenhouse gas emissions. And the US federal government operates the largest fleet in the world at 650,000 vehicles, with the USPS making up about one-third of that.
Joe Biden has made the federal fleet one of the targets of his plans for EVs, setting a goal for all new federal vehicles purchased after 2035 to be electric, with light-duty vehicles hitting that target by 2027.
But the USPS has been marching to a different drummer. Even as the Biden administration touted plans to electrify and cut emissions, the USPS seemed to dig in its heels on plans to purchase more fossil fuel-powered vehicles. Last year, when the agency first announced a contract to replace trucks, only 10% were going to be EVs.
It’s almost like USPS tried to maintain a pretense of cost benefit analysis in their procurement. But cost is irrelevant when social signalling is priority number one.
Thankfully important things are delivered by UPS or Amazon. The last thing I had delivered by USPS was some Three Stooges playing cards. And they were a little disappointing.
To be sure. 🙄
It’ll be hilarious when California’s annual summer brownouts hit and the entire USPS fleet is electric.
hatred for Ukraine
What about hatred for waste, fraud and abuse?
Mail trucks needed an upgrade, and badly. Many on the road today are nearly 30 years old. Replacing them with electric ones is an obvious move.
Who are you to argue with the big brains at MIT?
Ha. Those electric cars will be replaced in 5 years.
Watching Moonfall. Why do I love these dumb movies?
I had to look it up. Roland Emmerich should have stopped with the Matthew Broderick Godzilla.
Just you wait. Tinfoil Hat Thursdays are one Thursday away. All the stupid non- Christmas movies you could want. Just one more Christmas post to go…
Which is also good.
You had me at Tinfoil Hat.
Enjoy!
Voter suppression!
https://www.aier.org/article/progressives-love-suppressing-votes-but-not-the-way-you-think/
“Suppressing people’s votes in the marketplace for the benefit of those who think themselves entitled to a comfortable life at another’s expense, or for those who really know what is good for other people, does not help the suppressed voters. It insults them. Importantly, it impoverishes them (and the rest of us) by preventing prices from doing the work they need to do: transmit the knowledge people need to choose wisely. If we’re serious about listening to the least of these among us, we should let their money speak a little louder.”
MY MORALITY SAYS MORE THAN YOUR MONEY!!! [stamps feet and jumps up and down] IT HAS TO!!! IT HAS TO!!!!! /proglodytes in unison
So speaking of weather, I was finally on the right side of a storm for once.
Mrs. Holiness decided to do a holiday vacation in Palm Springs this year. We flew out yesterday afternoon. I was figuring we had a 50/50 chance of making it because the storm was bearing down on us. Our flight pushed back an hour late and then we waited an hour to get de-iced before takeoff, but we made it. Looking at weather reports and hearing from friends back home, we lucked out. If we had tried leaving today we would have been SOL.
Instead we are sitting in the sun with it being 70 or so. Went on a hike today and saw bighorn sheep wandering around the mountain side. Very cool
Merry Christmas Holiness!
It’s an absolute clusterfuck across the plains right now.
Enjoy your vacation!
We had about 3 inches of light fluffy yesterday, not much wind today. Township opened the road past my driveway today. We have a lot of snow already but not like Animal’s pace.
Stay warm, bring some back, Jimbo.
We got about 5, but it never got above zero today. Happily, tomorrow will be 19 and Saturday 43.
Took my SIL 7 1/2 hours to get from Denver to western slope yesterday.
Holy shit!
Fuckin’ I-70, man!
Forescore, ditto on your movie remarks on earlier thread. We both hope to die with our boots on and our best girl wore a yellow ribbon.
Take the tram up to the top of the hills, It is totally worth it.
Im going to bed. Some of us are expected to show for work even during storm-aggedon.
I miss the 90s
/Sarah Jane in that big hair…rarww
I was a child when the 80s ended and barely remember the decade. All of the music videos have one thing in common: everyone seems to be having an absolute blast.
I spent most of the eighties starving and alone. I rarely even had housing. It was a horrible time for me. Also for many who graduated high school with me.
I graduated college at the start of the 80s and was married and in grad school at the end.
In between were quite a few really fun years.
Oh yeah!
Great one.
For you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccnviOZWNo
I just overheard my wive use the term “brestissess” on the phone with her friend. Looks like I’m rubbing off on her again. I’m sure she will be using “ summer teeth”, gunt or shit heel soon.
Summerteeth
I had to look up gunt. I must be getting old. In my day we called it fupa.
That is a less offensive, barely, version.
“Breastesses” is old school, man.
Looks like I’m rubbing off on her again
Looks around carefully… Too easy, must be a trap. Probably a cop hiding in the closet.
Seasonal song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-96YTHPlgU
Reminds me of Yo! Ho Ho, only the comedy is intentional.
(My step brother’s 8th grade class performed the title track at our Christian school’s 1992 Christmas pageant; at the time I thought that album was perhaps the greatest musical release in history)
If the druids want to convert people, they should probably put out a song that doesn’t suck. At least Christians have Handel’s Oratorio and Carol of the Bells.
The Disturbing Reality of Cobalt Mining for Rechargeable Batteries from Rogan. The progressives might have to learn about the horrible ways the resources for their rechargeable batteries are made. Clock is ticking on how long it’ll take for them to find a way blame this on capitalism, rather than introspectively look at this as a problem of their own creation.
Thanks, Penguin.
Not that it will do any good but I’m gonna launch this up the asses of my proggies.
It does no good. The proggies exploit Africa now, same as they did before the civil war.
And of course fucking China is in the middle of it.
I knew it was bad, but this is obscene.
Yep. Just wait till lithium mining really takes off.
They’ll “discover” how bad EV batteries are for the environment once EVs are widely adopted and conventional vehicles have been legislated out of existence, and then we’re on to the next shiny thing in the Malthusian crusade.
They’re doing a lot to try to get the cobalt out of the battery designs (solid state batteries, solid electrolytes) but they are expensive and aren’t ready for prime time yet. Tesla bought Maxwell’s supercapacitor division to get the rights to their cobalt-free electrode designs, then sold it back off. Hopefully something good will come out of that.
The government should butt out and let the private sector work on the technologies until they are affordable and don’t lead to worker exploitation. And then the government should still butt out. Let the price be what it may.
The cheaper prismatic Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries don’t use cobalt but they aren’t as efficient either so the range is shorter.
“The government should butt out “
Yes. From everything.
The technology itself and its relative environmental impact is incidental, it’ll always be something, because environmental protection is not and has never been the real agenda with the watermelons. The market will, of course, solve for scarcity if and when the time comes. I’ve been hearing about graphene solid state batteries for a decade. Maybe they’ll turn out to be vaporware, maybe they’ll revolutionize everything. But whatever technology supplants the internal combustion engine. the environmentalist movement will oppose it the moment it becomes affordable and common, because it’s a fearmongering Malthusian death cult.
OFFS.
I only just saw the link that NotAdahn shared this morning about the school principal and counselor decided not to inform students when they’d qualified for the National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist status!!
If you didn’t know you were eligible you might not even take the “confirming” SAT test and fill in the other info.
Also there are other awards they give for scores that aren’t Scholarship qualifying, such as “National Achievement Scholar” (for African American students), National Hispanic (probably renamed by now), and Commendation. Those all help with applying for other scholarships, for college applications, etc.
In my day, the School got a National Merit Corporation flag to fly on any year they had National Merit semi-finalists. I went on to get Finalist status and then one of the 2000 national scholarships. Not that much money in itself but helped me get additional scholarships, tuition waivers, etc.
What those twits in the article did is evil. All for “equity.” What do you bet their own kids couldn’t qualify?
(If your kids will be sophomore or junior next year, useful info Here: : https://blog.collegeboard.org/parents-guide-psat-nmsqt
Yes, it is flat-out evil. And their fake apologies….
This should be pissing off mama bears from coast to coast.
Literal idiocracy.
If I had to see it, so do you.
Oh dear…
YUM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6QZn9xiuOE
Relevant
PIE FUCKER!
Relevant….
Cool link bro.
Would.
Also relevant. And maybe a tad more artistic.
Well, yeah?
I love this guy. Chato talks about the conflict between content producers and youtube reviewers.
This is my first day of my xmas vacation that did not involve a trip to the dentist. I am hammered. If anybody needs a bad take or worthless opinion I am here for ya.
GOAT hockey player of all time, GO!
Emilio estevez
Paul Newman.
Damn
Paul Newman.